The Dakar Rally will have a new winner in the motorcyle category this year after reigning champion Sam Sunderland crashed out with a broken shoulder in the rocky opening stage in Saudi Arabia on Sunday.
The Briton, who also won the event on two wheels in 2017, has now failed to finish the endurance rally six times out of 10 starts.
The 33-year-old GasGas rider was 10th fastest in Saturday's prologue and fastest at the first checkpoint before falling at the 52km mark in the 368km special stage inland and along the shores of the Red Sea.American Ricky Brabec took his ninth career stage win to lead the motorcycle standings with compatriot Mason Klein denied a first victory after being penalised for speeding.
Honda rider Brabec was 19 seconds clear of Argentina's Kevin Benavides on a KTM with Australian Toby Price third. In the car category, Spaniard Carlos Sainz took his 42nd career stage win to lead for Audi -- 10 seconds clear of France's nine-times world rally champion Sebastien Loeb for the Bahrain Raid Xtreme team.Sainz, 60, said he had taken it cautiously after suffering an early puncture on the stony terrain. He was watched by his visiting Formula One driver son and namesake.
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